Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dress or make clean; hence, to winnow (corn).
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Examples
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Rather, after about a week, Shorty would typically mash it back, operate the compactor, sniff the air and declare the load to be a bit ripe, at which point we would head for a place called Deet's Hallow (ph) in the city dump.
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I used to always have a case of the military Deet, which is 100% Deet.
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I used to always have a case of the military Deet, which is 100% Deet.
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I used to always have a case of the military Deet, which is 100% Deet.
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I used to always have a case of the military Deet, which is 100% Deet.
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I used to always have a case of the military Deet, which is 100% Deet.
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I used to always have a case of the military Deet, which is 100% Deet.
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I used to always have a case of the military Deet, which is 100% Deet.
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Most of those on the market do contain Deet, which is a very effective product, but it's not for everybody.
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Great Regulars: For all his Hindu allusions, he Derek Mahon displays a resistance to the transcendental: eschewing good Karma, he sprays "Deet" at a mosquito, despite being reincarnated as "a mozzie myself once".
Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word Deet
"To dress or make clean; hence, to winnow (corn)."
--Century Dictionary
December 23, 2010